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The reviews on this PJ, IIRC, is that good shadow detail could indeed be had. If you want the best of both worlds, you might need a new projector. From your explanation of the differences between the two settings, you are going to have to choose one compromise over the other. My friend's been borrowing it for the last couple of weeks. I haven't used it to calibrate really, and have been using Avia and DVE. Josten have you been through this disk? What patterns did you find most useful? They have done video encoding and compression for multiple HD DVD andīlu-ray discs, and have consulted for and produced test patternsĪnd evaluation material for a variety of video and consumer Standard-definition test and calibration discs for Anchor Bay Technologies. Publicly document and explain the well-known chroma upsampling error in Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity®. Of DVD players with the DVD Player Benchmark™ and Progressive Scan Shootout at They are inventors or co-inventors of multiple Stacey Spears and Don Munsil have written many seminalĪrticles, together and separately, on inside secrets of video decoding, The Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark, Blu-ray Edition Said, “this is the disc Don and I wished we’d had when we started creating theĭVD Player Benchmark™ and Progressive Scan Shootout.” This disc really fits the Spears & Munsil motto: Hand-Forged Video.”
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We built our own video editor and text overlay generator as Video-to-film pulldown patterns we wanted to generate.
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Spears, "we found that no existing software could create the special
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Spears and Munsil are best known for their analysis and testing ofĭeinterlacing chipsets, so it’s no surprise that the disc includes a full suite This ensures that there is no bleed or artifacting caused by compression.” “We shifted the borders betweenīars slightly so every one of them is on an AVC or VC-1 macroblock boundary. “We noticed that lots of color bar patterns have small artifactsĪt the borders between the bars,” said Spears. It’s a convergence problem or a decoding problem.”Įven a classic pattern like the ubiquitous Color Bars gets the Spears and Our pattern can show you that kind of alignment issue, and show you whether We’ve seen modern players that misalign the chroma channels up or down. The old days of analog, vertical chroma alignment was never a problem. And it allows you to check both vertical and horizontal alignment. It’s easy to see an offset of as little as a quarter-pixel, which we think is aįirst. Tell if the chroma channel is aligned properly with the luma channel. Proud of our Chroma Alignment pattern,” he added. That most image-processing software uses.” “Chroma patterns are especially tricky, because youĬan’t create them properly with full dynamic range in the RGB space Minimize artifacts and preserve all of the detail and bandwidth,” saidĬo-creator Don Munsil. Software generates the patterns in the native color space of Blu-ray, withoutĪny unnecessary color space conversions or rounding. A whole suite of chroma-channel evaluation patterns make it easy toĮvaluate chroma reproduction separately from luma.
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Shows how much of the 1080p image is being cropped by the player and/orĭisplay. Reproducing the highlights or shadows properly. A clipping pattern makes it easy to see whether the display is The disc includes patterns not seen on other discs, and new twists on oldįavorites. “Everything was created and encoded entirely by us, with no We didn’t make our disc byĮncoding patterns from an off-the-shelf pattern generator,” said co-creator “We developed our own pattern software so we could make patternsįor ourselves for evaluation and calibration.

The High Definition Benchmark uses all-new patterns created from scratch. Test material and calibration patterns to help home theater enthusiastsĮvaluate displays and players and adjust their home theater systems to get Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, acclaimed creators of the DVD Playerīenchmark™ and Progressive Scan Shootout at Secrets of Home Theater and Highįidelity®, announce the release of the Spears & Munsil High Definitionīenchmark, Blu-ray Edition.
